Hi All,

I would like to replace the hexadecimal value that is in the angular brackets with the decimal value of the same and print the lines with decimal value in it.

JDW-HP 1MVWV93V7j2Hxsa0Ag6 24:00:00 SUBJECT_EXACT _Did you<A0>serve our<A0>country? -New VA Home.Loan Program_

JDW-HP 1MVWV98Ddd4fLsa0Ag6 24:00:00 SUBJECT_EXACT Did.you.serve_our country? New-VA Home<A0>Loan Program_

This is the code i have written, how do i replace the hexadecimal value with the decimal value and print the whole line with new value?

#!/usr/bin/perl

my %RULES;
open (RUL,"<","/home/stummala/a");
while (<RUL>) {
    my $line = $_;
    chomp $line;
if ( /<(.*)>/ ) {
    my $num = $1;
    $dec_num = sprintf("%d", hex($num));
    print "$dec_num\n";
}
}
close RUL;

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Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to How do i replace one variable with another after searching for a pattern by Niklaus Mikaelson

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